Comments on: My First Experience with Parallels is a Poor One

By: Chris McElligott

Chris McElligott — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:03:00 +0000

I just tried it out on my new Core 2 iMac, kernel panics out the wazoo - I think might try Boot Camp.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:00:57 +0000

It seems to be running pretty smoothly now. I even did the VT-x trick (though my Mac froze the first time shortly after waking from sleep). The only remaining hurdle is the cost: $50 for Windows XP and now $80. All to check a few websites in IE and Firefox for Windows.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:51:06 +0000

I use Parallels on my MBP and my core duo mini - it works great on those. The Mac Pro support is new and is probably about where the MBP/mini support was a few months ago. Parallels rocks - once it's stable on your system, I'm sure you'll agree.

By: Mike Cohen

Mike Cohen — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:50:46 +0000

The non-beta release is NOT compatible with Mac Pro (or Leopard, for that matter), but current betas are. All versions run very nicely on my MacBook Pro with no crashes.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:13:49 +0000

And after reading more closely, I also agree that the link should say "Mac Pro users, don't get anything but this" in very large type.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:12:54 +0000

Apparently, they needed to put out a new version of Parallels because it couldn't work with the CPU. Considering how Parallels uses special virtualization support in the CPU, and how it's never run on a Xeon/Mac OS X combination before the Mac Pro was released, I think a kernel panic is an understandable issue.